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2/4 A youthful Eric Atkinson |
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3/4 Eric rests on top of a Humber in the Western Desert |
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![](/staticarchive/5ea3e7590d674d9be4582cc6f6c8e86070157686.gif) Eric Atkinson
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![](/staticarchive/5ea3e7590d674d9be4582cc6f6c8e86070157686.gif) Eric was called up at the age of 21 in 1940 and was sent to the Isle of Aldenay to train as a machine gunner.聽 After a spell in France he came back to train at the Military College of Science as a radar mechanic for 8 months.聽 He was then posted to the desert before landing in Italy and it was here that he would carry out a very important job...
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